Chinese Phone with HIDDEN CAMERAS
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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2,209 words · ~11 min read
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okay we gotta move this big thing over here
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not because it's not cool it's just that the cool thing we're focused on today is a lot smaller
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these are coming hard and heavy now i'm
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talking of course about the bezel-less notchless phones from you know major
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brands like oppo
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and vivo okay yeah they're both a lot bigger in
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asia especially apple oppo is freaking
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huge in asia so but how is it that they beat samsung to
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the punch and for that matter what was apple thinking
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trying to make taking a bite out of your display into some kind of a status
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symbol their hubris is going to be their downfall i swear
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actually you know what who am i kidding if it hasn't happened yet then why would
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it start now anyway this is the find x from chinese brand oppo
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and the reviewer's guide came with a bunch of restrictions in terms of what i
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was or wasn't allowed to test but i didn't sign anything so let's fire up
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the trippiest phone camera i have ever seen
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and look at some test photos and stuff shall we
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oh right speaking of ah
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below get a vpn today
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so i'm going to go ahead and say it it is one thing to rip off the iphone 10
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and it is another to rip off the galaxy
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s9 plus but to rip off
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both of them and somehow do it
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at the same time that is impressive
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and that takes some serious
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hutzpah so the fine 10 uh stopped me if you heard
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this one before is a flagship Android smartphone with a snapdragon 845
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processor eight gigs of lpddr4 RAM up to 256 gigs of storage a 37 30 milliamp
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hour battery that is strangely specific dual sim slots fast five volt four and a
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half amp charging Android 8.1 and yes here is the first big iphone 10
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ripoff somebody's done it somebody has cloned
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face id so my initial briefing materials this is
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great said they were planning to call this o face
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structured light show it swipe
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oh anyway i guess some party pooper tipped
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them off so the official name is probably tbd
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but it uses a flood illuminator an infrared camera proximity sensor a dot
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projector receiver and an RGB camera
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which is another way of saying a camera and so far the thing has worked
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basically seamlessly like check this out
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so what you do is you swipe it grabs your face it takes about half a
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second to go up and then half a second to go down and bam you're unlocked now
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unfortunately i can't demo side by side with the iphone 10 because for whatever
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reason face id is broken on my iphone i didn't feel like waiting two hours at
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the apple store last time i was in the mall but from my memory the speed is
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actually pretty similar once you factor in that the iphone 10
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uses a lift to wake mechanism before face id will grab your face and register
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it so by comparison this one i mean okay
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so it does have lift to wake so i'm just gonna show so it has lift to wake but
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the facial scanner obviously is is recessed right now so what you have to
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do is you have to swipe the screen and then it comes up
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and then it goes back down once it's done it's pretty freaking cool so it
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uses a total of 15 000 dots
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and if nothing else this is an absolutely
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jaw-dropping part draw drawing jaw dropping party trick like check this out
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so i'm gonna i'm gonna go out of my way to lock it and like you know you pull
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out your phone to be like
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that is so cool now with that said i do wish and this is
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true of both the find x and the iphone 10 that
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like vivo's next s there was a fingerprint scanner under the screen
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this is a great solution because there are no moving parts and this one
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actually has a fairly similar screen to
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body ratio to the find x
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i can say too though i mean like not drawing a ton of conclusions right now
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because my time with the device has been pretty limited that i think i prefer apple's lift to
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activate rather than swipe to activate especially because it allows face id to
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work while it's just sitting down on a table in front of you
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but then you are stuck with the notch
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that holds all of the face id sensors and you don't get the all screen
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experience and the all screen experience is pretty
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freaking cool like i didn't rip out the calipers but apple claims that this is a
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92.25 screen to body ratio and i have no
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reason whatsoever to doubt it it looks absolutely amazing they're using pretty
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much every trick available today including something called cop or chip
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on panel which is like a flexible screen technology which
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basically kind of wraps the electronics
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for the display under the visible part of the panel
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which curves around the sides so it doesn't have to sit on the edges which
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gives you less bezel than ever before and that is where the samsung galaxy s9 comes in
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okay come over here so so the similarities here
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are um pretty striking so they've both got
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curved gorilla glass 5 on both the front and the back now this one's got a d
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brand skin so you can't really see it there but it's there this one's got a
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6.4 inch amoled display running 2340x1080 so it is slightly lower
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resolution but i do actually prefer
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this taller aspect ratio so that's a 19
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and a half by 9 aspect ratio other than
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the difference in the bezels here on the bottom and here on the top so the fine 10 is
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using uh swipe based navigation by the way you can use gestures or you can add
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buttons these things look so similar like there's very little to distinguish
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them on the top the s9 plus has got the sim tray whereas this one doesn't but
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that's obviously because they've got this motorized
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mechanism for the camera here you couldn't very well put a sim slot in
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that thing and then on the bottom
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okay so they weren't able to fit a headphone jack presumably because they
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needed to make room for the dual sim tray right there
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uh it is a little bit thinner though which doesn't really register in the
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hand so much because it feels a little heavier although i
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haven't actually put either of them on the scale the other the other thing
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that's similar is even the colors so i've got the bordeaux version of the
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fine 10 and i've got the lilac version of the s9 so they've actually both
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managed to come out with purple phones which
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previously i don't think was a very common thing
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um yeah so not super stoked on the lack of
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headphone jack oh right other other differences lock buttons on this side
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and then over here the only thing missing is a bixby button if you're
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especially into that sort of thing which i suspect most of you are not
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camera wise we've got 20 megapixel dual cameras whatever that means um so the
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spec sheet that i had actually wasn't 100 sure it seemed to think it was a 16
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megapixel f 2.0 and a 20 megapixel f 2.2
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and because it's got dual cameras it does have a portrait mode but quite
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frankly uh maybe they still have some software
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work to do or something along those lines i did do some test shots but
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it is pretty rough right now which is
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kind of weird to me especially when you consider that oppo is closely related to
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one plus and oneplus's portrait mode actually isn't too shabby this is
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actually not a terrible example of it it did reasonably well here but the biggest
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difference so the main phones that i used for comparison were the s9 plus the
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pixel 2 xl and then i threw in both the
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nexus and the find 10 and the biggest
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difference between the korean and the american phone i guess and the chinese
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ones were that instead of a bokeh effect
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the chinese phones both seemed to be content with blurring the background
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which is not necessarily the same thing
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they don't look the same another big difference that i noticed
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between this and the s9 plus is actually something that i first picked up on a
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review that i'm working on of the alcatel 3v
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so this is a 150 phone way at the other end of the spectrum here
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and that is that for some reason
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and i still haven't narrowed down exactly why because netflix
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did not reply to my inquiry but for some
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reason the HDR certified phones that i'm
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getting are not just getting an HDR version of movies like this is thor
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ragnarok here they are also getting a higher resolution version it is very
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noticeable in the hair on the characters or in any fine details in the distance
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that this one not only has HDR colors
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it is also getting a higher resolution feed and i haven't quite figured out
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exactly why that would be so jury's kind of vote
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on this other than lacking HDR um wireless charging and having some
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serious misgivings about the durability of this mechanism like i'm already
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noticing when i'm holding the camera to take a picture i'm kind of getting my fingers in there and if i were to close
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the camera while they're in there it doesn't pinch but
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there's there's definitely room for it to screw up
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i'm not sure if i'm ready to give a recommendation but i don't know if that
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matters because there isn't even like a global
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rom available yet with Android assistant for example things that north americans
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would be used to seeing and i don't know if apple has any plans to enter north
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america but it's definitely a cool phone i'm
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just not sure if this as amazing and cool as it is is quite
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the right approach to all scree phone but i just i don't not 100 sure what the answer is
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so so far we've got the notch which i i also don't think is the right
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answer we've got your selfie camera down here and just one big bezel which i'm
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not sure is the right answer we've got samsung with
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you know maybe they can make this a little smaller but beyond that they really can't go anywhere with it
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and then we've got vivo with the in-screen fingerprint sensor which is
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not a bad approach but remember they too have a mechanical camera raising thing
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but with this one it only pops up when you need to take a selfie which for me
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anyway comes up an awful lot less
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so let me know your comments below does oppo have the right approach here
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or do we have to rethink everything does it even matter if you
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have an all screen phone i will say it makes everything else feel
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very last gen like a pixel 2 xl is like like caveman compared to this thing and
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